The-Leader_1970-12-17

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35tli YEAR No. 35 FRKPORT. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1970 PRICE: TEN CENTS PER COPY
Village Clamps Down
On Absentee Landlords
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The Freeport Village Board
took anoUier step thii week to
lighten enforcement of Housing
and Building Code provisions.
Village (Counsel Oateiy Gentry,
Jr. was directed to p-epare a new
ordinance requiring every ab-sentee
landlord to have a local
representative in the Village The
purpose of the new law. Mayor
Robert J Sweeney said, is to
allow the Code Enforcement
Attorney and the Building
Department to serve ^nvmoiffies
or obtain compliance whenever
there is an alleged housing
violation. "Tm often," he said.
"we have p^blenm trying to
reach a landlord or mortgage
holder, whft nitght be in New
York City, anotner p«rt oi the
state or even out of the caiuntry.
Our new ordinance will m^n
that B landlord must have
somebaly im the spot who we can
get hold of and who will be
responsive to our inspectors and
village officials ""
Tlie Mayor indicated tlwt this
was one more step in the con­tinuing
program to maintain
village neighborhoods by strict
code enforeetaM^.
CONFER IN WA^nNCTON ON URBAN RENEWAL
Freeport Urban Renewal Director John Saivadore, top, accompanies V i H a ^ T r u s t s Lloyd Orr and Deputy Mayor
WiUiam Whit^ to Wariiington, D C , where they met with a top Federal Urban Renewal officiaL
John Jordan. United States Director for Renewaf Assistance of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
said that the funds for the Freeport Program A o u l d be released to die V i l l j ^ very shortly, according to Mr. Salva-dore's
report on their return.
Deputy Mayor White noted that Mr. Jorctan assured them that all o f the technical information and program plans
for the local Urban Renewal Project had been reviewed and accepted by Wa^ington.
Freeport Educator Accuses OEO of Discrimination
TTie owner of a black education^ consultant firm has
Opportunity of discrimination in awarding contracts for
cotitroveiKial performance contracting.
N. H- Jackson, president d N.
a ^ u ^ ^ the Natiomtl Director of tfie CMfice of Economic
such well known OEO ^^oiraored programs as the now
H Jackson Associates, of
F r ^ ^ r t , New Ywk, said thai
OEO has awarded hun#e^ of
mtUi(»is irf dollars in research
and development contracts but
wM, a s i i ^e black ccnniMiny has
participated in this program. In a
letter to OEO Director Donald
i^mMeld, Jactetm said. **The
very strmtare of OEO
requirements governing con­tractors
and ttfferors precludes
the partld{»tion of iU-flnanced
emeiil^^ btack firms. I am aure
you wiU agree that most Mack
business inrganizations fit Into
this category: most ar% em^iging
and all are under-fimn^. It te
the irony of the age that an
organization that claims
df^ication to tnii^ng ^»nomle
opportunity loall Amerifans, am
display such a lu'azen l a ^ of
semitivity to the fact that black
consultant i m s canntt &B^
contractual rdation with OEO
when "big" Rume^ is involved."
Performance cimtractfaig M an
educational innovation under
which sdiool districts pay private
ccmtractors to perftHtn specific
instructional mrvices. Tiraehos
i^ociatlorai a o t ^ the country
inye vticed shaip qpp^ition to
this concept of ^ucattonal
service.
In Jackson's view, per-f
i r m a t ^ cmibacttng is not a ted
scheme in itself, but he f ^ I s it
would be a meaningless pri^ram
in tl% bladk oammunlty iml^s
c^nbvctors sedk the !smh^» of
black consultants who offer
valuable (4)|ecUve infintnaticNnal
inpitt bitfore amfm decfdcms are
made. "The true reason
educational serves have been
so disgraedhiUy inadequate In the
black community for far too
many y ^ r s is b ^ i ^ the black
oonununity IMS never had the
opportunity to select and certify
its own i^det^hip and has never
b»e«i permitted to nnake blndi^
d i ^ ^ i a s ttot would rend«* the
maximum educattonal t^nefit to
black children.
Air. Jae^on St&tm that tte
National fklui^tion Association
has expre^ed bitter criticism of
performance contracting but has
not en^ai»>r^ to survey the
fi^Unp of the black ccramuni^
Oil the Issue.
Ouest Speakar at tfie
Chamber of Commepca
Luncheon Thunday, De­cember
17tfi at the Villa
Horn Restaurant will ba Ro­bert
Duffy, Difector of Aroa
De\ffi!{opment for the Long
Island Lighting Company
and Chairman of the Busi­ngs
Development Council
of the Long yand A^ocia-tion.
The topic of Mr.
Duffy's ^mst^ will be tfie
"Future Dewnlopment of
Long Island."
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